Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Is Bolsa Família Program allowing households escape this trap?

• Grant number: 17/02861-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2017
• End date: July 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Social Welfare Economics
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Guilherme Dácar da Silva Scorzafave
• Grantee: Maria Isabel Accoroni Theodoro Habenschus
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto (FEARP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Brazil has today the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world, the Bolsa Família Program. By becoming beneficiaries of Bolsa Familia, the families make several commitments health and education. These conditionalities aim to expand families access to their basic social rights, and to break the so-called intergenerational poverty cycle. The objective of this project is to evaluate the long-term effects of the program, i.e. to analyze whether conditionalities are being effective in overcoming the poverty trap. In this sense, one proposal is to measure these effects using three different strategies. The first is to verify the percentage of children beneficiary who became responsible beneficiaries, i.e. to calculate the intergenerational permanence rate in the program. The second strategy is to identify the people characteristics who have not been able to escape the poverty trap. Finally, the third strategy propose to analyze if being a program beneficiary during the teenage years increases the chance of completing basic and middle schooling at correct age, delays entry into the labor market, increases the chance of obtaining formal employment and changes the migrating probability.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

HABENSCHUS, Maria Isabel Accoroni Theodoro. Bolsa Família Program: migration, school performance and long-term effect on poverty. 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) Ribeirão Preto.